Where am I? Oh. Moody Mountain Road. Right. I've done this trip so many times, I sometimes forget where I am. North Palermo Road to Greeley Road to Burnham Hill Road to Thompson Ridge Road, New…
Culture
New Andre the Seal documentary on PBS; Camden Opera House offers free screening, too
ROCKPORT—The Goodridge sisters are the only four sisters in the U.S. to know what it was like to be raised in the same household as a harbor seal. Their father, Harry Goodridge, who lived with his…
ROCKLAND — Thirteen local authors from Maine Authors Publishing of Rockland will be attending The Maine Lobster Festival on July 30-August 3 for book signings…
Couperin - Berio - Mozart
ROCKPORT –- Bay Chamber concerts returns to a tradition this week with several familiar artists for two concerts that will kick off their three week residency in Rockport. Geoff Nuttall (…
BROCTON — Rockland’s Warren Seelig’s is considered a game changer by Fuller Craft Museum of Brocton, Massachusetts, for his artwork using fibers. Seelig’s work is being showcased in an exhibit…
SEARSPORT — The week of August 3-9 at Searsport Shores Ocean Campground Camp and Create will be making chainmail, learning macramae and doing a bit of cartooning with “Santa” Steve Schreurs.
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Production in Rockland and Rockport
ROCKPORT — The number of cameras focused on Midcoast Maine will ramp up this autumn as one entirely new TV station…
Hail To The Rad Kids
LINCOLNVILLE—If the name Alice Limoges is familiar, it’s probably because you heard about her when she was a teenager in the Midcoast, playing coffeehouses, festivals and other venues. She’s 19…
Transformations
Lime Island is one of a small chain of islands on Penobscot Bay about 5 miles out of Camden Harbor on the coast of Maine. It takes about 20 minutes to get there by power boat.
It was about 30…
CAMDEN — Passes to the 2014 Camden International Film Festival are now on sale through the organization's website, www.camdenfilmfest.org/attend. The tenth annual Camden International Film…
CAMDEN — Nineteen Midcoast chefs and caterers will contribute their culinary talents to the 2014 Merryspring Kitchen Tour on Wednesday, Aug. 6, from…
This annual event unveils new highlights from the artist John Paul Caponigro's recent international travels north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle. There were also stops…
Interview: Village of Spaces’ Amy Moon and Dan Beckman
BELFAST - Dan Beckman and Amy Moon looked at some 70 homes before settling on a fixer-upper on Mill Lane in 2006. Perched above a bend in the road, the old…
Event: Tech Workshop
Location: Vose Library, 392 Common Road, Union
Date: Thursday,…
Belfast - Midcoast Actors' Studio presents Nunsense, the hilarious musical spoof about the misadventures of five nuns trying to manage a talent show, August 1-10 at the Unitarian…
ROCKPORT — Long before there was a Star Search, America's Got Talent, or any other nationwide venue for up and coming artists, there was Community Auditions. The show has been…
BELFAST — Hospice Volunteers of Waldo County is holding an Award Ceremony and Reception for its Juried Art Show Saturday, Aug. 16, 6:30 p.m., at the Belfast Free Library.
At the…
SEARSPORT — The focus for week July 27 – Aug 2 at Searsport Shores Ocean Campground Camp and Create will be creating Colorful Memories with Artist in Residence is Maryly Matthewman.
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The Belfast Arts Final Fridays Art Walk this month will take place on July 25. Explore the downtown galleries as well as the studios surrounding the downtown area. Every Final Fridays Art Walk is…
Literary Spotlight
LINCOLNVILLE — Before a book finds a home in Nanette H. Gionfriddo’s beachfront bookshop Beyond The Sea…
Artist spotlight
CAMDEN — It must be a good feeling to get an email from Senator Angus King telling you how much he loves your work.
Kendra Denny, a local artist from Camden, didn’t even know one of her…
CAMDEN — Massive inflatable balloons and two birthday cakes marked the beginning of the Camden Opera House’s 120th anniversary celebration that will continue through the rest of the…
On PBS
ROCKPORT — A documentary on Andre the Seal and Harry Goodridge is scheduled to be aired on PBS, Wednesday, Aug. 6, at 8 p.m…
ROCKPORT — Bay Chamber Concerts mission is to enrich the lives of the people in the community through music, and this week's concerts are no exception.…
CAMDEN –- Lee Webb will kick off the Maine and the Civil War events at the Camden Public Library on Thursday evening, …
Belfast Public Library
Page to Screen – Irish style
On Tuesday, July 29 at 6:30 p.m. the 1992 film version of Roddy Doyle’s bookThe Snapper will be shown at the Belfast Free Library as part of the Library…
BELFAST — Thanks to a $1550 grant from the Waldo County Fund of the Maine Community Foundation, Belfast Poetry Festival organizers will bring Chicago slam poet Adam Gottlieb, one of the…
2014 Maine Celtic Celebration
BELFAST — The 2014 Maine Celtic Celebration continues Sunday with lots of Celtic music on Belfast Common.
While the Highland Heavy Games are underway below the Common, along the waterfront,…
THOMASTON -- The program, organized around weekly themes, features daily activities and events, a story or two, and some fun in the sun, including a picnic lunch outside, weather permitting. Each…
SEARSPORT — Gee’s Bend quilters China Pettway, Stella Mae Pettaway, Revil Mosley and Lucy Mingo Quilts, whose non-traditional quilts have been called by the New York Times “some of the…
SOUTH THOMASTON — The retreat center at 26 Split Rock Cove in South Thomaston is offering a one-day memoir writing workshop on Saturday, Aug. 2. Registration…
LINCOLNVILLE BEACH — The Beyond the Sea Book Festival at Lincolnville Beach is scheduled for Friday/Saturday/Sunday July 25, 26, and 27. The new location of Beyond the Sea at…
SEARSPORT — Meet Maine artist Eric Hopkins, and see Eric Hopkins: Shells - Fish - Shellfish, a major retrospective of his work, on Friday, July 25, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in…
Transformations - Poetry
I am from the golden, sandy beaches and warm, tropical breezes of Southern Florida, palm trees and parrots flying free, long bike rides on lazy afternoons, smoothies…
67th Maine Lobster Festival
ROCKLAND — Maine Lobster Festival organizers, among many worldwide fans of blues rock musician Johnny Winter, are reeling from the news Thursday that Winter died July 16.
According to media…
BELFAST — Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco will speak about and read from his poetry from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 2, with a signing and refreshments immediately afterwards. The event will…
ROCKLAND — Rock’n’Blues Fest returns Saturday, Aug. 2 at Rockland's Harbor Park.
Rock and Blues fans are certainly in for a tasty musical treat this summer as the popular Rock'n'Blues Fest…
Caption: Online auction of one-of-a-kind buoy art created by 50 artists with ties to Maine.
ROCKLAND –- To celebrate Trekkers historic milestone of 20 years of Building Up…
From Fear to Success: A practical public-speaking guide
Dizzy head. Pounding heart. Shaking limbs. Sweating body. Shallow breathing. Queasy stomach. These symptoms hold people back from what they really want — SUCCESS. Public speakers of all levels…
Transformations
I tend to rise early as my work is subject to a European time schedule. This means that around 5 a.m., with half an eyelid open, I can discern the ululation of loons making their aerial way to…
What’s in that cocktail?
The Whitehall Inn is bringing the glamour back with a new cocktail aimed at drawing…
ROCKPORT –- Entering into its third week, the Bay Chamber's Summer Concert Series presents several timeless and well-loved pieces that promise to amaze.…
THOMASTON — Week Five of 40 Days of Summer’at Thomaston Public Library: Craft Week!
Crafts are the theme for Week Five of Thomaston Public Library's 40 Days of Summer …
A look behind what inspired Laura’s F’n Sestina
It all started at a bar, as most good stories do. John Bullock, a.k.a Pirate John as he’s been known in Camden Harbor since the turn of the Millennium, was just finishing up working the sunset…
Clementine offers modern fabrics, notions and creative goods
ROCKLAND—If being dragged into fabric shops by your mother as she searched for 1970s patterns was your childhood experience, Clementine is going to turn that frown upside down.
Leah Ondra,…
OWLS HEAD — The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention has announced the winners of the 2014 Lyme Disease Awareness Month contest.
During May, Maine CDC held its fifth annual…
The Novel Jazz Septet will be performing eight concerts throughout Maine between July and September featuring the music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, two of the most celebrated pillars of…
ROCKLAND — Just because Labor Day comes and goes, doesn’t mean the lobsters do. Don’t put away the white shoes and certainly don’t stop eating lobster in Midcoast Maine after Labor Day. …
SEARSPORT — Marilyn Cleveland, owner of Marilyn’s Jam Session, recently unearthed a century old recipe from her great Aunt Florence for Grape Catsup, which Aunt Florence made on her farm in New…
The past was coming up in shards and other small pieces in Woolwich on July 8, as Claire and Michael Robinson opened up their Kennebec River property to an archaeological dig.
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